Older Adult Special Interest Group
We are delighted to announce the relaunch of the Older Adult Special Interest Group. To help us tailor the SIG’s activities to members’ needs and interests, please complete the following (very short!) online form: https://forms.office.com/e/3KkdnwA2RL.
Focus and purpose
To provide a forum for exchanging ideas, and sharing knowledge and skills between those interested in applying behavioural medicine to the fields of:
- Healthy ageing and frailty
- Health behaviours among older adults
By bringing together researchers, clinicians, third sector organisations and public/patient representatives, the special interest group aims to enhance networks and collaborations to accelerate progress improvements in health and wellbeing outcomes for older adults.
Planned activities and Events
- Holding conference symposia, webinars, and meetings to raise the profile of relevant work among behavioural science and older adult research communities
- Supporting the UKSBM mentoring scheme and older adult related early-career fellowship applications
- Disseminating relevant topic updates and information to members.
You can find out more information about our news and events by following #UKSBMOASIG on Twitter.
Co-chairs
Prof Debi Bhattacharya
(University of Leicester)
d.bhattacharya@leicester.ac.uk
Dr David Maidment
(Loughborough University)
d.w.maidment@loboro.ac.uk